I think this is the week of sharing lifted layouts, well at least for today again anyway. I was planning to share a photo of my workspace, you know for workspace Wednesday, but I lost my light to take the picture and had other things come up that took my attention away while I had the light. Don't you just love when life has other plans? 

That said, I still wanted to pop in and share, so I'm sharing the layout I had planned to share tomorrow. No big deal really since my plan for Friday changed too, it all worked out in the end. And holy bananas, I've now posted three days in a row!! What a change a challenge makes!!

For this layout, I lifted the fabulous Geralyn Sy and this layout from her Odyssey gallery over at Studio Calico. Loved the simplicity of it. I just stretched it out to 12x12 so it fit into my album and used a different chipboard circle. I changed a few other details as well, but overall I'm pretty happy with how this lift turned out.

I'm planning to be back tomorrow and Friday with more layouts to share, lifted or otherwise, before I take a break over the weekend. Hope your Wednesday is treating you well!! Thanks for stopping by!

deb

hello love

I love this photo. I love this selfie. I took it one day back in December as we were on our way to some event or something, to be honest I don't even remember. I remember putting on my Edelman jersey (NE Patriots and one of my favorite players) because I was happy that he was finally back at practice after being injured earlier in the season. Even though he wasn't cleared to play yet, I was, like most Patriot fans, excited that he was back at practice. I couldn't wait to scrapbook the photo and even changed things around in the 2015 albums to fit it in. Love the way it turned out. Loved lifting this layout from Marcy Penner's Cirque gallery. 

Hope you have a fabulous Tuesday!! Thanks for stopping by!

deb

february...a lifted layout

Happy May!!! I've been ignoring the blog for a few months but I've issued myself a personal challenge of blogging Monday through Friday during the month of May!! Hoping it takes and continues into June and throughout the rest of 2016. And really, how is it May already?!? Didn't we just celebrate Christmas???

I've got some projects that I am planning to share over this week that I lifted from other scrapbookers as I work my way through some of the older kits in my stash. With school and other life commitments, staying current with my Studio Calico kits really isn't an option. I supposed I could use the current one and work backwards through them, but that's just not how my brain works.

I've got a few layouts left to share from the Cirque kit then I'll be moving onto Lisse St. (which was a favorite of mine and I haven't completely loved a kit like I loved Lisse St. in a long time...I might have gotten 3 of these kits that's how much I loved it)!

In 2014 and 2015 I was using the collect app on my phone to document the month and this is the monthly layout for February 2015. I lifted this layout from Lisa Truesdell's gallery.  I made a few adjustments in terms of color scheme and stretching the layout to 12x12, but it's a pretty straight forward lift. Love lifting layouts when I'm trying to work through my backlog of kits at a pretty quick pace. I'm thinking of pulling out of of my old sketchbook classes for a few layouts in the very near future. Those are some of my favorite classes!!

Happy Monday and Happy May!! Did I mention that I can't get over the fact that it's May already?!?

Thanks for stopping by!!

deb

love

Happy Tuesday!!! I'm back today to share another layout I put together. I lifted this layout (as I have the past few that I've shared) but this time, I lifted Marcy Penner. I wish I could link up the original layout, but I actually lifted her layout from a class over at Studio Calico, ironically called "Lifted." Seriously loving the Cirque kit and wish I had picked up the more pattern paper option (more of the main kit pattern paper) when I originally got this kit! But oh well that I didn't. I am almost through the kit and it got me thinking about a challenge I want to issue myself about the upcoming March kit (that will be released later today...noon for current subscribers and 3pm for non-subscribers). I'll get into that another time!! For now, I'll just share this...

Have a fabulous Tuesday!! Thanks for stopping by!

deb

a birthday selfie

I've been rethinking what and how I want to post on the blog in 2016 (yes, even as we head into the third month of 2016) and how I can be more consistent with blogging. I'm also going to be doing a little construction and changing things around. Bear with me through the changes and while I figure out a bit of a schedule for myself.

With that said, I did want to pop in today to share another layout I lifted from Stephanie Bryan. You can see her original layout in this post (the same as I shared last week). LOVED her gallery for the Cirque kit over at Studio Calico, and since I'm WAY behind on using my kits I figured why not do some lifting to get through them!! I am off from school this week (ten week terms with a week off between terms at Southern New Hampshire University) and I am hoping to get through a few kits this week and do some "for me" reading (which means I am going to bust through Divergent!).

The layout doesn't have a title, which I am not quite sure how I feel about yet. It's been moved into the stack of layouts that I have to put into albums so right now it's an out of sight out of mind kind of thing for me right now. The photo I used on this layout is the selfie my husband and I took on his birthday before we left to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was such a GREAT show!! He's loved them for a long time and when I noticed they were performing on is birthday, I decided to get us tickets. They were really great seats, but to be honest, I don't think there would be a bad seat for this show. They really play to the audience! He loved it and I loved it, too. I think I am going to see if they'll be back this year and try to get tickets again!! Such a great way to spend his birthday and be a bit festive too being that it was right before Christmas!

Hope you are having a great Monday!! I'll be back tomorrow with another layout to share. Until then, thanks for stopping by!

deb

Love, True Love

I was having a bit of trouble figuring out exactly how I wanted to scrap the selfie we took outside of Fenway park as we waited (with thousands of others for the sold out game against the Yankees) so I decided to scrap-lift a layout I loved from a person that I'm a big fan of...Stephanie Bryan. I loved the "Love, True Love" layout she put together, which you can see in this post, and decided that would be a perfect fit for this photo. My husband is not a fan of crowds AT ALL, but he has humored me several times by going to very crowded places, this game included. Since it was Derek Jeter's last season, I am so glad we went. And it's a bit ironic that the home team was playing the Yankees...just as it was when we went to the Twins game in Minnesota during the summer of 2013! We are always trying to schedule a local sporting event on these trips if we can. It's fun and, honestly I know people who live in Boston who can't say that they've seen the Yankees play the Red Sox in Fenway. It's pretty cool that we can say that!!

I hope you are having a fabulous Friday and have a great weekend!! Thanks for stopping by!
deb

Fenway

Ahhhh...Fenway Park in Boston. It's pretty iconic to say the least!! When my husband and I started planning out our trip to Boston back in 2014, we got tickets to a Yankees - Red Sox game before we even had plane tickets or a hotel to stay in. When you find out that one of baseball's biggest and longest rivalries is happening when you're in town, it's just want you do!!! We got great seats behind first base int he grandstand (so we'd be under cover if it rained) and it happened to be Derek Jeter's last season with the Yankees...so it was a win win for all involved!! I'll never forget all the boo's the crowd shouted when they introduced the Yankees, that is until they got to Jeter and he was given a lot of clapping and screams instead. I guess the respect for how he played the game regardless of the team he represented outweighed the rivalry for that short time.

We got to Fenway pretty early with quite a bit of time to kill before we'd be let into the Park, so we just hung out on Yawkee Way, walked around the Red Sox shop a bit, then stopped in one of the bars for a beer. We (along with thousands of others) eventually got pushed back as they prepped the gates for opening, and needless to say it was SUPER crowded. It was a sold out game so crowded is an understatement!!!

I wasn't sure how I'd use this silver foil paper, but once I had my page design (pulled it from an older layout I did because when I struggle with how to arrange a layout I look to past layouts that I love) and this one just came together. I am not one who minds the gold and silver contrast on a layout either, obviously!! Love how this one turned out and it's suck a great memory to add to the scrapbook of this trip!!

Thanks for stopping by!!
deb

a change in plans

I got 2 sheets of this Studio Calico paper during their last call sale earlier this month because I loved the B side. It's the plano pattern in an orange/yellow color. I didn't think for one second that I'd use the A side when I ordered it!! Change of plans when my box arrived. I fell in love with those words and decided to add a photo with a few layers to the side. I didn't add any journaling really, just the date on a label. Instead, I let the words on the paper do all the talking. The photo is one I wasn't planning to scrapbook because it's a bit washed out. It was a selfie my husband and I took on Christmas day this past year while at his parent's house. For some reason, we always sit in the same spot in front of their big window every year. In 2014, we took a similar selfie with our niece and nephew and got a similar washed out look. I guess it's sort of tradition now. Just a few simple layers of Shimelle's Christmas Magic line and embellishments to make a quick and simple page. Here's hoping I use the second piece of this paper with the B side!!

Thanks for stopping by!
deb

35 @ 35

Happy Tuesday!! Last week I was honored to host the challenge over at Studio Calico. The challenge was to use an older kit. Seeing as how I've got a back log of kits piling up along with kits I just can't bear to break apart yet, I figured it was a good challenge for me too. Here's what I created using the Sandlot kit (an old favorite of mine).

A few years back I started documenting fun things that happened the year before, on my birthday. Meaning, this photo was taken on my first day at 36 and I reflected upon 35 things I did, saw, and/or ate while I was 35. I was feeling a bit lazy this year too in that I didn't write out the whole list on the layout, but instead printed off the note I had made of the list on my iPhone, attached that to a shipping tag, then tucked it into a glassine bag that's behind the watercolor date card. I like to think of it as work smart not hard! HA!!! It's so fun to look back on these layouts that I'm thinking my hubby should get involved this year!! Most of the time, I record the events on my phone (as in this case) or in a note book. So much tends to happen that I want to make sure I get it all down when it's happening...that way I don't forget anything later when I'm putting the layout together. Need to put my 36 @ 36 layout together soon too, at least that's my goal before to do before I turn 38 this summer!!

Hope you're having a great day today!! Thanks for stopping by!
deb